"I was born in September 1971 in Helsingborg, a small football-mad
Swedish city. My father, who came from the Cape Verde Islands off the
West African coast, loved the game as well, and apparently as soon as I
started to walk I had a football at my feet."

but "Larsson" seems to be a Swedish name, not African... maybe he changed it.

The uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century; Cape Verde subsequently became a trading center for African slaves and later an important coaling and resupply stop for whaling and transatlantic shipping. As a result, Cape Verde's expatriate population is greater than its domestic one. Most Cape Verdeans have both African and Portuguese antecedents.